Europa Enterprise: On Commoning is a two day seminar focused on the question of the future of South Eastern Europe through the lens of the necessity of commons-based organisations seen from the perspective of feminist and Anthropocene thought.
| In collaboration with Kadist, Lumbardhi Foundation hosted a two day seminar titled “Europa Enterprise: On Commoning” part of « Not Fully Human, Not Human At All », co-curated by Nataša Petrešin Bachelez and Ares Shporta on the 16th and 17th of September at Lumbardhi Cinema in Prizren. The first day of the seminar consisted of a keynote by Jelena Petrović (Vienna) on the ancient myth about Arachne as a political metaphor of resistance and the performance “The |
| Eumenides” (2014) by Lala Raščić (Sarajevo, New Orleans). The second day was made up of two sessions, where participants presented cases of commoning from different cities in south-eastern Europe. Through cases of initiatives around agricultural lands, historic cinemas, memory or public goods, that have triggered the formation of active communities to preserve, re-think and utilize these shared resources, the sessions brought forward a broad definition of commons and questions about the future of these structures. The session on “Urban and Civic Commoning” hosted five participants: Armina Pilav (Rotterdam/Sarajevo) , Aslıhan Demirtaş (Istanbul), Gigi Argyropoulou (Athens), Ivana Dragsic (Skopje) and Teodor Celakoski (Zagreb). Whereas the session titled “Artistic & Cultural Commoning” hosted: Erëmirë Krasniqi (Prishtina), Iliana Fokianaki (Athens), Marko Miletic (Belgrade), Romeo Kodra (Tirana). |
| This seminar is the first step of the three-year project “Not fully human, not human at all”, curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and initiated by Kadist, including artistic commissions by Lala Raščić and Daniela Ortiz. The project took place across Europe in partnership with Hangar (Lisbon, Portugal), Kunsthalle Lissabon (Lisbon, Portugal), Lumbardhi Foundation (Prizren, Kosovo) and Netwerk (Aalst, Belgium). |